Word: insist
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Winston Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Certainly it seems so in this case. Why would someone find it in his interest to insist he is a pimp for young boys? Why would Reuters' Ellis -- who claimed to be acting in the interest of journalism -- attempt to induce someone to change his story for money? We may never get to the whole truth of the matter, but we will continue...
...there have been no major outbreaks of illness. Health officials say such traditional scourges as cholera and typhoid are unlikely to pose a significant threat, and authorities insist that clean water and uncontaminated food -- which so far have been available in most areas -- will ensure that a full-scale epidemic doesn't take place. "There's a misperception that every time there is a disaster, people are at risk," says Mitchell Cohen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The key elements are providing safe water and safe food. Health authorities know this controls any infectious-disease problem...
...starts ugly and becomes beautiful, so works of art that begin their career surrounded by announcements of a new start, a radical primitivism, tend to find a level where -- surprise! -- their ancestors emerge from the closet. So it is with Dubuffet, who never ceased to insist that he was kicking free from the conventions of Western culture, starting with the idea of beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life...
...constituency is disillusioned. Says Barney Frank, a homosexual member of Congress: "The victims of the prejudice would rather lose with the President on their side than win a small gain with him being perceived as having moved away." One Administration official says he wishes Clinton wouldn't insist on saying his moderated version of the Joint Chiefs' position is progress. "It would be better if he would admit that he had to compromise on a difficult issue, that this isn't what he believes, that this is what he was forced to accept or Congress would legislate a ban that...
...Schmidts' supporters insist that the courts have indeed considered the child's best interests by restoring her biological ties. "The law starts with the good presumption that it is in the best interests of children to be with their families, unless for some reason the family is inadequate," says Carole Anderson, vice president of Concerned United Birthparents, which is trying to restrict adoptions and strengthen the rights of birth parents to regain custody of children they have released. To reward the DeBoers' intransigence by letting them keep the child, Anderson says, would put all families in jeopardy. "If a noncustodial...